Language, material culture, fiction, cultural studies, more. Anything related to 6th – 10th centuries, anywhere in the world.
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Evina Stein(ova) deposited Parallel Glosses, Shared Glosses, and Gloss Clustering: Can Network-Based Approach Help Us to Understand Organic Corpora of Glosses? in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Glossing was an important element of medieval western manuscript culture. However, glosses are notoriously difficult to analyze because of their triviality, fluid nature, heterogeneity of origin, complex transmission histories, and anonymity. Traditional scholarly approaches such as close reading and the genealogical method often do not produce…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Atlakviða, reversal, and theories of Germanic alliterative metre in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Norse poem Atlakviða shows an irregular metre which is difficult to classify. This makes it a useful test case for comparing the explanatory abilities of two major theoretical frameworks of Germanic alliterative verse: the positional theory and the word-foot theory. I argue that the word-foot theory is more successful, especially in deriving…[Read more]
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Eddie Meehan deposited The importance of salvation in Carolingian royal advice literature in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The trend of Carolingian royal advice literature, Fürstenspiegel, or specula principum offers advice to kings on how to rule well and examples of ruling poorly. Interpretations of these texts have often focused on traditional ideas of the Carolingian reforms, for example the focus on classical models of rule in Sedulius Scottus’ De rectoribus ch…[Read more]
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Thijs Porck deposited “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899) in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Thijs Porck, “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899)”, in Language Use, Usage Guides, and Linguistic Norms, ed. Luisella Caon, Marion Elenbaas & Janet Grijzenhout (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 107-129.
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Alaric Hall deposited Leeds Studies in English: A History in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Despite the epistemological importance of the scholarly journal, few thorough histories of individual academic journals have been written, especially of journals in the arts and humanities. This article uses both archival material and oral histories to construct a multifaceted history of Leeds Studies in English (LSE) from the beginning of its…[Read more]
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Christian Cooijmans deposited Hostile in Tent: Reconsidering the Roles of Viking Encampment across the Frankish Realm in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
When considering the establishment of overseas viking encampments, some of the most detailed and vivid contemporary descriptions of this activity originate from the Frankish realm, a region which nevertheless remains precariously positioned in wider comparative investigations of the viking world. To address this imbalance, this chapter assembles…[Read more]
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Kordula Wolf deposited Tra terra e mare – una premessa in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 4 months ago
This preface introduces in the main issues of the volume.
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Dominik Waßenhoven deposited Sancta mater. Entstehungsumstände und Darstellungsabsichten der Vita Adelheids von Vilich in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Die Vita der heiligen Adelheid von Vilich, geschrieben um 1056/57, wird vor dem Hintergrund ihres Entstehungskontextes interpretiert.
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Dominik Waßenhoven deposited Lotharingien und das ostfränkische Reich. Verschwägerung als politisches Mittel? in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Lotharingia and East Francia: Marriage as a Political Instrument? – Kings and nobles arranged marriages for their daughters in order to form or strengthen po- litical alliances. Historical writers of the tenth century interpreted the relations of the Ottonian kings Henry I and Otto I with the Lotharingian dukes Giselbert and Conrad the Red in t…[Read more]
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Albrecht Diem deposited The Pursuit of Salvation. Community, Space, and Discipline in Early Medieval Monasticism in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 10 months ago
The seventh-century Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines (Someone’s Rule for Virgins), which was most likely written by Jonas of Bobbio, the hagiographer of the Irish monk Columbanus, forms an ideal point of departure for writing a new history of the emergence of Western monasticism understood as a history of the individual and collective attempt to p…[Read more]
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Katherine Cross deposited Moving on from ‘the Milk of Simpler Teaching’: Weaning and Religious Education in Early Medieval England in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week ago
This chapter is published within Early Medieval English Life Courses: Cultural-Historical Perspectives, ed. Porck and Soper. Please email me if you would like to cite it and I will send you a PDF with page numbers.
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Nathan Gibson deposited Cross-Communal Scholarly Interactions in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 10 months, 4 weeks ago
This chapter traces cross-communal interactions in the fields of medicine, mathematics and what the historical actors called the natural sciences. It discusses various modern interpretations of those interactions and engages with a number of historical problems researchers face when studying the extant sources. After a substantive survey of the…[Read more]
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Jake Stattel deposited Legal Culture in the Danelaw: a Study of III Æthelred in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
Viking invasions and settlements left substantial legacies in late Anglo-Saxon England, attested in legal texts as a division between areas under Dena lage and those under Ængla lage. But how legal practice in Scandinavian-settled England functioned and differed from Anglo-Saxon law remains unclear. III Æthelred, the ‘Wantage Code’, provides criti…[Read more]
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Christian Cooijmans deposited Annales Fontanellenses in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
The ninth-century Annales Fontanellenses are a concise set of monastic annals composed by the community of St Wandrille, situated along the lower reaches of the river Seine. Covering the 840s and 850s, their contents are concerned with a relatively brief but highly tumultuous period in the history of the Frankish realm, representing an eclectic…[Read more]
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Howard Williams deposited Rethinking Wat’s Dyke: A Monument’s Flow in a Hydraulic Frontier Zone in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
Britain’s second-longest early medieval monument – Wat’s Dyke – was a component of an early medieval hydraulic frontier zone rather than primarily serving as a symbol of power, a fixed territorial border or a military stop-line. Wat’s Dyke was not only created to monitor and control mobility over land, but specifically did so through its careful a…[Read more]
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Howard Williams deposited Drawing the Line: What’s What’s Dyke? Practice and Process in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
Often neglected and misunderstood, there are considerable challenges to digital and real-world public engagement with Britain’s third-longest linear monument, Wat’s Dyke (Williams 2020a). To foster public education and understanding regarding of Wat’s Dyke’s relationship to the broader story of Anglo-Welsh borderlands, but also to encoura…[Read more]
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Howard Williams deposited What’s Wat’s Dyke? Wrexham Comic Heritage Trail in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
We hope this comic heritage trail for Wrexham helps introduce you to Britain’s third-longest ancient monument
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Howard Williams deposited Collaboratory through Crises: Researching Linear Monuments in 2021 in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
This article introduces the third volume of the Offa’s Dyke Journal (ODJ). As well as reviewing ODJ 3’s contents, I present reviews of the journal received to date, notable new publications on linear monuments, and the Collaboratory’s key activities during 2021. The context and significance of the research network’s ongoing endeavours are present…[Read more]
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Howard Williams deposited Dai Morgan Evans: a life in archaeology in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
Introduction to the collected essays of Professor Dai Morgan Evans
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Nelson Goering deposited Review of Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
Review of Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon, by Megan E. Hartman, Berlin/Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2020, pp. XII + 213, £83.00, ISBN: 978-1-5015-1832-4
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